Bellator 52 earns 2nd highest ratings ever
Ratings for this past weekend’s Bellator 52 event were up 70 percent from the week prior, and the Oct. 1…
Ratings for this past weekend’s Bellator 52 event were up 70 percent from the week prior, and the Oct. 1 event scored the second-highest audience in the promotion’s history with 269,000 viewers on MTV2.
Bellator 52, which took place at Louisiana’s L’Auberge du Lac Casino Resort, featured the promotion’s season-five heavyweight quarterfinal bouts and went head-to-head with UFC on Versus 6. Spike.com streamed the preliminary card.
An immediate replay of the event scored 196,000 viewers, marking a combined audience of 465,000 viewers for the first two airings of Bellator 52.
Just two weeks prior, Bellator 50 scored an all-time low of 114,000 viewers while facing competition from UFC Fight Night 25 and NCAA football.